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वृषदंश (vRSadaMza)

 
Capeller Eng
English
वृषदंश॑
m.
 cat (lit. =
seq.
 ).
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वृष—दंश a See above, line 13.
वृष—दंश॑ b
m.
 ‘having strong teeth’, a cat,
VS.
&c.
&c.
a kind of animal living in holes,
Suśr.
N.
 of a mountain,
MBh.
Monier Williams 1872
English
वृषदंश 2. वृषद्-अंश (for 1. वृष-दंश
see under वृष). See वार्षदंश।
Macdonell
English
वृषदंश vṛṣa-daṃśá,
m.
 (having strong 🞄teeth), cat
-dhara,
m.
 ep. of Śiva
-dhvaja, 🞄a. having a bull an emblem
m.
 ep. of Śiva.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वृषदंशः
पुं*
 वृषः-दंशः -
बिलाव
L R Vaidya
English
vfza-daMSa {% m. %} a cat.
अभिधानरत्नमाला
Sanskrit
ओतु
ओतु, विडाल, मार्जार, वृषदंश
ओतुर्विडालो मार्जारो वृषदंशश्च कथ्यते ।
verse 2.1.1.236
page 0029
Mahabharata
English
Vṛshadaṃśa, a mountain. § 596 (Pratijñāp.): VII, 80, 2852 (śailendraṃ, in the north, near Mahā-Mandara).
पुराणम्
English
वृषदंश / VṚṢADAṀŚA. A mountain near the mandara mountain. arjuna once dreamt that he travelled to the world of śiva with śrī kṛṣṇa. It is mentioned in M.B. droṇa parva, Chapter 80, Stanza 33, that in this dream travel they visited this mountain vṛṣadaṁśa also.
Vedic Reference
English
Vṛṣa-daṃśa, ‘strong-toothed, ’ is the name of the cat in the
Yajurveda Saṃhitās, ^1 where it figures as a victim at the Aśva-
medha (‘horse sacrifice’). It also appears in the Pañcaviṃśa
Brāhmaṇa
^2 the fact that the sneeze of the cat is here referred
to renders it likely that the animal was already tamed. Geldner^3
sees a house cat in the animal alluded to in a hymn of the
Atharvaveda^4 by a set of curious epithets, including vṛṣadatī,
‘strong-toothed, ’ but Whitney^5 decisively rejects the idea that
the hymn refers to the domestic cat.
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 21, 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 12
Vāja-
saneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 31.
2) viii. 2, 2.
3) Vedische Studien, 1, 313-315.
4) i. 18.
5) Translation of the Atharvaveda, 19,
20
Bloomfield, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 15, 153, n.
Hymns of
the Atharvaveda, 261.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 86.
Capeller
German
वृषदंश॑
m.
 Katze (eig. = folg.).